The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
Chinese proverb.
(Thanks to Kari Hultman.)
My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.
Jonathan Ive, in an interview with The Telegraph.
Also:
Ive talks about Apple’s attention to detail in its products – details that often won’t be seen by consumers at all – as a desire to “finish the back of the drawer”. “We do it because we think it’s right,” he says. The seed of that idea was planted while watching his father work.
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Today is Memorial Day, which is about so much more than grilling and cookouts. But the fact remains that there will be a lot of burgers made today. Here are a couple of recipes to help you out.
- Wilbur: [Woodworking on the internet] could be worse. We could be in the internet photographers and camera gear world. *grin*
- Marc: worse yet….gaming!
- Wilbur: HAHAHAHAHA!
- Marc: i dip my toes in that arena quite often and I have the scars to prove it. :)
- Wilbur: Internet ww'ing would be so much more fun like this: "LV p0wns all!!! Woodcraft is teh sux0r!!!!!!"
How to save 571,230,000 pounds of paper each year.
Why is this important? If forests aren’t being cut down to make paper towels, that leaves more trees for us woodworkers to use.
The online woodworking community, though something of a Wild West, of course, is mainly about support and help—basically—community. And my comments were neither supportive nor helpful. Though I was coming from a FWW editor’s perspective, someone who feels tremendous pressure to disseminate the best possible info, and was talking only about a small handful of my experiences online, I missed the point completely.
Chip Breakers
Bob Strawn, in an excellent article about his take on the Kawai-Kato video:
For an occasional craftsman who dreads taking a blade out or adjusting a plane, a top iron is horrid. For a craftsman who has a hundred planes on the wall, a top iron may be just another thing to fiddle with while trying to do work. For a craftsman with less than a dozen planes, or a craftsman who carries his tools, I believe that it is well worth his time to learn how to use a double iron.
Even more impressively, in this article Bob describes how he came from a place where he did not like chip breakers to where he knows how to use them well. The impressive thing is that Bob had the cojones to talk publicly about how he changed his mind.
In my day job, where I am on faculty at the medical school, I know from teaching medical students how to have the insight to know when their previous ideas may not be entirely correct and to adjust their practice is one of the hardest things for someone to learn how to do. So kudos to Bob for being brave enough to say this in public. Many of us never learn this skill. And it’s a more valuable skill than knowing how to set up and use a chipbreaker.
Which I have to start learning how to do, myself. I’m also in the “chipbreakers are useless” camp. But probably not for long.
